Archives for the ‘humor’ Category

Antoine Lefevbre

Antoine Lefevbre Work from his oeuvre. ““The exhibition’s multi-disciplinary character is a reflection of the diversity of Parsons Fine Art Program’s student body and their engagement with a wide range of current trends in global art practices,” notes Fine Arts Chair Coco Fusco. ”Students in the program hail from Turkey, Korea, Taiwan, Russia, France, Canada, […]

Greg Stimac

Greg Stimac Work from his oeuvre. The stills from above video projects in no way due justice to even the most basic appreciation of content. Please go to his website to check them out. “Greg Stimac works within a mode of photography with a rich history, the photographic series constructed from images captured in travels […]

Chris Coy

Chris Coy Work from his oeuvre. Below is a text from Montage: Unmonumental Online at the New Museum. “…“Montage: Unmonumental Online” will feature works by an international group of fourteen emerging and midcareer artists who appropriate diverse material from the Web to create new Internet-based montage. Cutting and pasting, breaking apart and re-assembling, ripping and […]

Bea Fremderman

   Bea Fremderman Work from her oeuvre. “There is an immediacy in Fremderman’s work that brings to the fore a brash youthfulness that demands the spotlight and your full attention. She knows how to play on your desires while simultaneously captivating your gaze like a road-side car crash rubber-necker. The intimate relations that Fremderman is […]

Michael Demers

Michael Demers Work from Color Field Paintings (Browser), Date Paintings, and Every Despot I’ve Ever Known. Generate a color field painting here. “Color Field Painting (‘Where,’ after Morris Louis) consists of a series of vertical browser windows that appear consecutively across the screen from left to right. Each browser is set to 800 pixels high, […]

Kristen Lucas

Kristen Lucas Work from her oeuvre. If you look at nothing else today, look at Refresh (and read the transcript). “In my mind, I am in a shopping mall parking lot. I am framing a scene that I will fill with a cast of zombies. People and family vehicles move through the space of my […]

The Jogging (Brad Troemel and Lauren Christiansen)

The Jogging (Brad Troemel) Work from The Jogging. ________________ Melissa Paget interviews Brad Troemel Melissa Paget: What are you influenced by? Can you tell me about your work? What materials are you interested in working with? Brad Troemel: On Jogging we classify works as being sculptures, installations, etc. but all of the works on it […]

Sol Hashemi

Sol Hashemi Work from Study for ‘The Natural Landscape’, Five Plastic Tablecovers, and Eight Bottles of Champagne.  “Leaving my studio, I get in a car. I drive to the nearby IKEA with the sole purpose of picking up free furniture brochures. I make it out with a twenty-pound stack. I spend two weeks cutting free […]

Michel de Broin

Michel de Broin Work from his oeuvre. ““Why is there something, rather than nothing?” is a question to be posed to art by those faced with its object: the artist, his viewers, the critics. For, in the end run there could very well be nothing. This may even be for the better. After all, if […]

Erica Allen

Erica Allen Work from Untitled Gentleman. “Untitled Gentleman is a series of fictional portraits created using anonymous faces from contemporary barbershop hairstyle posters combined with figures from discarded studio photographs. Through interventions in these found photographs, this work explores representations and constructions of identity in portraiture and appropriates value to images and individuals who are […]